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Injurious is the gift that takes away freedom.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about gifts

Of this world each man has as much as he takes.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about world, man

Who takes a lion at a distance fears a mole present.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about present

It takes four living men to carry one dead man out of a house.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man, home, house

Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about people, man

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about mistake, man

Who takes an eel by the tail and a woman at her word, may say he holds nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about word, woman, nothing

He who is an ass and takes himself to be a stag finds his mistake when he comes to leap the ditch.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about mistake

Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about commerce, thieves

The hole the crab digs takes on the shape of its shell.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Sometimes it takes only an hour to get a reputation that lasts for a thousand years.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about prestige

The fool takes many people with him.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste.

Proverbs and old sayings about devil

To win a war quickly takes long preparation.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about war

Habit in sinning takes away the sense of sin.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about habits, common sense, sense, sin

Even light takes a decade to travel ten light-years.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about light

He who takes the profit ought also to take the labour.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

He who takes it to himself, he it is who has done the act.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

A zebra takes its stripes wherever it goes.

Proverbs and old sayings

No one takes away anything with him.

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese